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Subject: AESCHYLUS (525-456 B.C.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER AESCHYLUS, by JOSEPH TWADELL SHIPLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are numb silences in tragedy
Last Line: And they are ashes when we turn to go.
Subject(s): Aeschylus (525-456 B.c.)


AFTER READING AESCHYLUS, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will not sing my little puny songs
Last Line: Pass into me, till I am musical.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth
Subject(s): Aeschylus (525-456 B.c.)


THE FROGS: A 'EURIPIDEAN' CHORUS, by ARISTOPHANES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gloom of the night, gloom of the night
Last Line: Show me glyke, hot from sin.
Subject(s): Aeschylus (525-456 B.c.); Euripides (484-406 B.c.)


THE FROGS: THE FATAL OIL-FLASK, by ARISTOPHANES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, I'll not chip and scratch them line by line
Last Line: This pocket-flask will blow a heavy gale.
Subject(s): Aeschylus (525-456 B.c.); Euripides (484-406 B.c.)


THE FROGS: THE FROGS' SONG, by ARISTOPHANES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brekeke-kex ko-ax ko-ax
Last Line: Silenced! -- so there! -- who wins -- our croaking bout?
Subject(s): Aeschylus (525-456 B.c.); Animals; Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Frogs


THE FROGS: THE RIVAL POETS, by ARISTOPHANES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fiercely, methinks, will he rage in his heart and loud will he bellow
Last Line: All the other's lungs have wrought.
Subject(s): Aeschylus (525-456 B.c.); Euripides (484-406 B.c.)